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A design to save American cities

When Brent Ryan started doing academic research on Detroit, in the 1990s, he was immediately taken aback by the city’s plight: derelict commercial buildings, burnt-out homes and whole neighborhoods being ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sony, Panasonic eye next generation TV tie up

Japan's cash-bleeding electronics giants Sony and Panasonic are looking to join forces to produce next generation televisions in a bid to claw back market from South Korean rivals, according to a report.

Technology / Business

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Smart phones offer users a way to ditch pricey voice plans

Your monthly cell phone bill is way too expensive. No, it's not the fees or taxes or even text messages that are leaching your wallet. It's your voice plan.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Cisco's sobering forecast overshadows 3Q earnings

(AP) -- Cisco raised the specter of a sharp slowdown in technology spending late Wednesday, rattling investors already fretting about the economy's fragile condition.

Technology / Business

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obama unveils historic power grid reform

President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Poaching puts pressure on Malayan tiger

A Malaysian government plan to double its population of endangered Malayan tigers to 1,000 through tighter protection is under threat due to persistent poaching, a conservation group warned Tuesday.

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Re-inventing the planned city

In response to population growth, many "new towns" or planned cities were built around the world in the 1950s. But according to Dr. Tali Hatuka, head of Tel Aviv University's Laboratory for Contemporary Urban ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new artificial intelligence technique to speed the planning of tasks when resources are limited

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid have presented a new technique based on artificial intelligence that can automatically create plans, allowing problems to be solved with much greater speed than ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Want to read all about it online? It may cost you

(AP) -- With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the spring and summer debating whether to cut off free online access to some of the material they run in their shrinking ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 1.3 / 5 (3) | comments 11

Vatican board asked to resign over conference

(AP) -- Members of the Vatican's bioethics advisory panel have called for its board to resign after scientists who don't support core church teaching on issues like birth control and infertility were featured at its annual ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 10

Uninsured turn to daily deal sites for health care

(AP) -- The last time Mark Stella went to the dentist he didn't need an insurance card. Instead, he pulled out a Groupon.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 31, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 32

FCC plans to move forward with broadband plan soon

(AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that it intends to move forward quickly with key recommendations in its national broadband plan - even though a federal appeals court this week undermined the agency's ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Augmented Reality technology becomes a tool for urban and construction planning

Mobile computing tools for urban and construction planning have developed dramatically over the past few years. Even by global standards, the progress made at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has been remarkable. ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA chief charts agency's shuttle-less future

(AP) -- NASA may not be going to the moon anytime soon and its space shuttles are about to be retired, but it could conceivably increase the number of agency jobs under a new reorganization, NASA's chief ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

SeaSketch, the next generation of UCSB's MarineMap program, will aid marine spatial planning

Since 2009, a free Web-based marine mapping and spatial planning program created by UC Santa Barbara scientists has proved to be an essential tool for fishermen and other stakeholders along the California ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Plan

A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with timing and resources, used to achieve an objective. See also strategy. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions, through which one expects to achieve a goal. For spatial or planar topologic or topographic sets see map.

Plans can be formal or informal:

The most popular ways to describe plans are by their breadth, time frame, and specificity; however, these planning classifications are not independent of one another. For instance, there is a close relationship between the short- and long-term categories and the strategic and operational categories.

It is common for less formal plans to be created as abstract ideas, and remain in that form as they are maintained and put to use. More formal plans as used for business and military purposes, while initially created with and as an abstract thought, are likely to be written down, drawn up or otherwise stored in a form that is accessible to multiple people across time and space. This allows more reliable collaboration in the execution of the plan.

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